Friedrich Hasenöhrl

Friedrich Hasenöhrl
Friedrich Hasenöhrl
Born(1874-11-30)30 November 1874
Died7 October 1915(1915-10-07) (aged 40)
Vielgereuth, Welschtirol, Austria-Hungary
NationalityAustro-Hungarian
Alma materUniversity of Vienna (PhD)
Known forElectromagnetic mass
AwardsHaitinger Prize (1905)
Scientific career
FieldsPhysicist
InstitutionsUniversity of Vienna
Thesis Über den Temperaturkoeffizienten der Dielektrizitätskonstante in Flüssigkeiten und die Mosotti-Clausius'sche Formel  (1896)
Doctoral advisorFranz S. Exner
Doctoral studentsKarl Herzfeld
Erwin Schrödinger

Friedrich Hasenöhrl (German: [ˈhaːzn̩øːɐ̯l]; 30 November 1874 – 7 October 1915) was an Austrian physicist and professor of the University of Vienna. He postulated a relation between electromagnetic mass and energy, close to the modern mass–energy equivalence.

He was killed in action during World War I.